Mark Ryland
Director, Security, Amazon Web Services
Mark Ryland is the global technology leader for the Amazon Web Service (AWS) Worldwide Public Sector (WWPS) team. Mr. Ryland leads a team of Solutions Architects and Professional Services Engineers who provide technical evangelism, architectural guidance, knowledge transfer, and cloud implementation services to government, education, non-profit, and non-governmental organization customers around the world. In addition to building and managing a large technical team, Ryland is an expert in distributed systems, networking, cybersecurity, and identity and access management. He also serves as a key interface between public sector customers and the engineering, security, and compliance teams at AWS, ensuring that public sector requirements are given priority in plans and roadmapsfor the fast-developing AWS cloud platform.
Ryland has more than 26 years of experience in the technology industry, beginning in 1991 as a Senior Architectural Engineer with Microsoft Federal Systems in the USA. He continued at Microsoft for ten years, serving in a variety of software engineering and technical marketing roles in the Systems Group. In the late 1990s he started and ran the first standards organization at Microsoft, serving as Director of Standards Strategy until 2000. Subsequently, Ryland served as CTO of two start-up companies, as well as Vice-President and Director of the Washington DC office of a Seattle-based public policy group. He rejoined Microsoft in 2008 as National Standards Officer for the USA, later switching back to an engineering role as a principal program manager in Microsoft’s identity and access team, before joining AWS in September 2011 to lead the WWPS technical team. Ryland brings a rich set of software engineering, distributed systems, cybersecurity, technical evangelism, public policy, and management skills to the WWPS team and its customers.
Additional information on Mr. Ryland is available at http://linkedin.com/in/markryland.
Mark Ryland is the global technology leader for the Amazon Web Service (AWS) Worldwide Public Sector (WWPS) team. Mr. Ryland leads a team of Solutions Architects and Professional Services Engineers who provide technical evangelism, architectural guidance, knowledge transfer, and cloud implementation services to government, education, non-profit, and non-governmental organization customers around the world. In addition to building and managing a large technical team, Ryland is an expert in distributed systems, networking, cybersecurity, and identity and access management. He also serves as a key interface between public sector customers and the engineering, security, and compliance teams at AWS, ensuring that public sector requirements are given priority in plans and roadmapsfor the fast-developing AWS cloud platform.
Ryland has more than 26 years of experience in the technology industry, beginning in 1991 as a Senior Architectural Engineer with Microsoft Federal Systems in the USA. He continued at Microsoft for ten years, serving in a variety of software engineering and technical marketing roles in the Systems Group. In the late 1990s he started and ran the first standards organization at Microsoft, serving as Director of Standards Strategy until 2000. Subsequently, Ryland served as CTO of two start-up companies, as well as Vice-President and Director of the Washington DC office of a Seattle-based public policy group. He rejoined Microsoft in 2008 as National Standards Officer for the USA, later switching back to an engineering role as a principal program manager in Microsoft’s identity and access team, before joining AWS in September 2011 to lead the WWPS technical team. Ryland brings a rich set of software engineering, distributed systems, cybersecurity, technical evangelism, public policy, and management skills to the WWPS team and its customers.
Additional information on Mr. Ryland is available at http://linkedin.com/in/markryland.
